Grade 5
Analytic
Practical
Creative
Understanding Goal / Central Idea
Who We Are



Changes people experience at different stages of their lives can affect an evolving sense of self.
Knowledge
Type in http://kidshealth.org/kid/
Put self-esteem in the search bar. Read 3 articles relating to the topic to build knowledge.



Concepts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Self.jpg
Use the four categories of the self to create an image of oneself that shows a sense of self by identifying how much influence each part has had in two different phases of one's life, past and present.


TD Skills
Analyze survey results.



Attitudes




Action




Sharing the Planet



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Knowledge
Read the article and comprehend the issues with regards to the conflict over water use.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/us/an-arid-arizona-city-manages-its-thirst.html?src=rechp&_r=0
Use the student guidelines to plan out research for the week that will be used to strengthen background knowledge before making the CI and LOI.


Concepts


Frame the initial problem as a super hero against a villain. For example, Taxes vs. Underfunded Education. i.e. Responsibility vs. Form

TD Skills

Library lesson on advanced OPAC searching to improve our research skills for both fiction books and non-fictions books that complement the unit.
Students will formulate questions that will drive the investigation phase.

Attitudes
Analyze the essential elements to figure which ones will help us to develop independence.



Action




How the World Works



The student will understand that
understanding the relationship between the earth and the solar system enables us to make technological changes.
Knowledge
Sort variables into qualitative and quantitative categories.
1. Use key vocabulary from the scientific method
consistently in discussion and written work.
2. Conduct an experiment to see if a hypothesis is true.
3. Follow the scientific method on at least one occasion.
Propose a new technology that will solve a problem on the earth whose existence relies on our knowledge of the relationship between the earth and the solar system.

Concepts
Determine how the variable in your experiment is changing .
Make a change to your experiment that will produce a different outcome.


TD Skills




Attitudes

Make a guide book for future scientists explaining how commitment is a major aspect of scientific work.


Action
Analyze the data collected about children wearing sunscreen.
Promote the use of sun screen in school during the summer months.
Create a campaign that will get children to commit to wearing sunscreen regularly and determine a way to measure it.

How We Express Ourselves



The student will understand that media is a powerful tool that influences the decisions people make.
Knowledge

Use your knowledge of characters to make an iMovie.


Concepts
What is causing the telegraph to die?
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/06/24/the-worlds-last-telegram-will-be-sent-next-month/?utm_source=Committed+Sardines&utm_campaign=5358d25f36-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f244ccc9d2-5358d25f36-189021782

Change a form of media to evoke a desired result.

TD Skills
Analyze forms of media using text overlays and thinking routines.



Attitudes




Action

Create a class newsletter.


Where We Are in Place and Time



The student will understand that people move for many reasons, and its impact changes the world.
Knowledge
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130616

Build knowledge about internal, forced, rural to urban migration by reading the articles and watching the video.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/there-are-45-2-million-refugees-globally-the-highest-in-nearly-two-decades/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20130619&utm_content=smartnewsrefugees

If FDR were the globe, calculate how many students would be moved out of their class each day.
Develop criteria to determine when someone should no longer be considered an immigrant.
Develop criteria for who should and should not be allowed into a country.

Concepts
Write a reflection about whether people should be tolerant of a group of people or not.
Identify some of the change occurring in Peru with regards to rural to urban migration.
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-more-women-than-men-migrate-to-cities-100213
Use what you know about migration to write a script
that will be produced. The script should entertain the audience and teach it about a migratory event
showing at least two perspectives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130616

Brainstorm 10 problems that will occur and solutions for 2 of them to show change.

TD Skills
Write an analysis of the impact on people that a tsunami had.

Use dialectical thought to show what is good about a country that someone moved
to and what is bad about the
country they went to.



Attitudes

Develop the targeted attitudes by having the children move closer and closer together over the course of a week so that they experience urbanization in the classroom.


Action




How We Organize Ourselves



The student will understand that government systems influence the lives of citizens
Knowledge


Students will work in groups to ​plan how they will create laws for an artificial island that they occupy and govern.

Concepts
Students read and evaluate different political perspectives. Then they will locate themselves on a political spectrum.



TD Skills
Read a book about US history to show comprehension of a law that turned out to be inferior. i.e. Women's Right to Vote, The Boston Tea Party, The Declaration of Independence.



Attitudes

Students will organize their tables into semi-autonomous areas with a table captain. They will have to demonstrate cooperation both in setting it up and consistently maintaining it during the unit.


Action





Determine how the variable in your experiment is changing.